TY - ADVS AU - Richie,Chip AU - Heape,Steven R. AU - Studi,Wes AU - Jones,James Earl AU - Howard,Gregg AU - Ross,Gayle ED - Mill Creek Entertainment. TI - Trail of tears: a Native American documentary collection PY - 2009/// CY - [United States] PB - Mill Creek Entertainment KW - Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 KW - Cherokee Indians KW - Relocation KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Government relations KW - Indians, Treatment of KW - United States KW - African Americans KW - Relations with Indians KW - Indians of North America KW - Mixed descent KW - Medicine KW - Ethnobotany KW - Medicinal plants KW - North America KW - Education KW - Off-reservation boarding schools KW - Indian students KW - Discrimination in education KW - Documentary films KW - lcgft KW - Nonfiction films KW - Feature films KW - Historical films N1 - Collective title from container; Originally released separately: 2006, 2001, 2004, and 2008; Disc 1. Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy / Rich-Heape Films ; written by Daniel Blake Smith ; produced by Chip Richie and Steven R. Heape ; directed by Chip Richie. (105 min.) -- Disc 2. Black Indians : an American story / written by Daniel Blake Smith ; directed by Chip Richie (52 min.) ; Native American healing in the 21st century / written by Howard Fisher ; produced and directed by Chip Richie(52 min.) ; Our spirits don't speak English : Indian boarding school / written by Dan Agent ; directed by Chip Richie (53 min.); Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: written by Daniel Blake Smith ; produced by Chip Richie and Steven R. Heape ; directed by Chip Richie; Black Indians: written by Daniel Blake Smith ; directed by Chip Richie; Native American healing in the 21st century: written by Howard Fisher ; produced and directed by Chip Richie; Our spirits don't speak English: written by Dan Agent ; directed by Chip Richie; Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: narrator, James Earl Jones ; host, Wes Studi ; celebrity voices, James Garner, Crystal Gayle, John Buttrum, Douglas Wilder; Black Indians: narrator, James Earl Jones; Native American healing in the 21st century: narrator, Gregg Howard; Our spirits don't speak English: narrator, Gayle Ross; Not rated N2 - Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders; Black Indians: Explores issues of racial identity between the mixed-descent peoples of both Native American and African American heritage. James Earl Jones is himself a Black Indian; Native American healing in the 21st century: Learn from today's respected physicians the crossover of ancient native remedies to present-day medical practices. Explore for healing plants and herbs. Learn from tribal elders traditional healing practices and philosophies. Discover the contents of a recently found 350-year-old medicine bag. Compare the similarities of Native American and Chinese healing; Our spirits don't speak English: Imagine you are a child, taken from your home, your family, taken from everything you know. In 1869, the U.S. government enacted a policy of educating Native American children in the ways of western society. By the late 1960's, more than 100,000 had been forced to attend Indian Boarding School ER -